About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

● 1953 - Britain sends troops to Guiana; Naval and military forces are on their way to British Guiana in response to what the UK Government says is a threat to the administration of the British colony.

● 1973 - The Crossing: 80,000 Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, destroying the fortified Israeli Bar-Lev Line and starting the Yom Kippur War (named as such because it was during the Yom Kippur high holy days). Heavy fighting erupted between Arab and Israeli forces along two fronts as Egypt and Syria attempt to re-take land occupied since 1967.

● 1976 - Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Castrist militants, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados.

● 1976 - New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.

● 1976 - Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.

● 1976 - In a debate with Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, President Gerald R. Ford asserted there was ''no Soviet domination of eastern Europe.'' Ford later conceded that he had misspoken.

● 1977 - In Alicante, Spain, a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers were attacked by fascists while putting up posters. Miquel Grau, a 20-year old MCPV sympathizer, is killed.

● 1979 - President Carter praises Pope's courage; John Paul II has become the first Pope to set foot in the White House after greeting US President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn. The meeting of the 39th President of the United States with the 264th Roman Pope broke a 200-year-old tradition which has seen few US politicians publicly courting the Catholic Church.

● 1981 - Egypt's President Anwar al-Sadat is shot to death by Islamic militants while reviewing a military parade.

● 1985 - Policeman killed in Tottenham riots; A police officer is hacked to death by a mob during riots at the Broadwater Farm housing estate in North London.

● 1986 - Nuclear technician missing after secrets leak; Fears grow for the missing nuclear technician who has disappeared in London. (Turns out he was kidnapped by Israelis.)

● 1987 - The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court. Bork would refuse to have his name withdrawn and go down to defeat in the whole Senate.

● 1995 - 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus, 47.9 light-years away from Earth, was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (an extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.

● 1996 - American singers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw married after touring on their Spontaneous Combustion Tour.

● 1998 - Gay-bashing: Near Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is viciously attacked by two assailants for being gay (he died on October 12).

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Life long Liberal. Actually saw JFK on campaign trail. Defining moment of my life was the assassination of JFK. First presidential election I participated in was knocking on doors for McGovern, have been tilting at windmills ever since.